Fanboy

If I ran a game store I would play Fanboy by the great Luke Ski.

My first encounter with Luke Ski was at Gen Con So Cal 2004. He was so good on stage there that I bought many of his CDs that night. Fanboy is one of the standout songs that I remember listening to on the ride home. It's a parody of Kid Rock's Cowboy. Luke Ski sings it like an anthem to fandom. It's a loud, fast hick-hop song, with a sound that really matches the breathless passion fans can achieve. It is a pop culture omnium-gatherum of lyrics. Luke Ski tosses in references to all major geek fandoms at the time – that time being 2002. Surprisingly, even over a decade later, the references really hold up for big time geeks. Star Trek, Star Wars, Futurama, Pokémon, Doctor Who, Sailor Moon, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show are all still part of the collective geek mind as I write this in 2014. Even those that aren't still dynamic properties, they were such tent poles that the older set will still catch all the references.

Fanboy is from the great Luke Ski's 2002 album, Uber Geek. There's also a revised version, titled Fanboy (2010 Edition). The music is updated in this version, but the lyrics stayed the same. I much prefer the older version of the song and if I ran a game store I would play the 2002 version of the song.

Fanboy on Bandcamp